William Shakespeare Quotes
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Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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How low am I, thou painted maypole?
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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What is more miserable than discontent?
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Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
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Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
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Oh what fools we mortals are.
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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form
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Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
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where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
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Go, bid the soldiers shoot.